chekker
Definition of chekker
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: a stringed keyboard instrument of the 14th and 15th centuries
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Origin and Etymology of chekker
borrowed from Anglo-French, corresponding to Continental Middle French eschequier, eschaquier, probably the same word as Anglo-French cheker, escheker, Continental Middle French eschequier “chessboard, counting board, table with a checkered top”; presumably so called from the resemblance of the instrument to such a board
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